The Nissan Motor India group, which manages sales and service support for the Nissan and Datsun brands, announced plans in 2016 to introduce a total of up to eight new models from the two brands to India by 2021.

Nissan Motor also appointed Peyman Kargar as Senior Vice President and Chairman, and Kalyana Sivagnanam as Regional Vice President, Marketing and Sales for its Africa, Middle East and India (AMI) region, informed the automaker in a statement.

"The future of the sub-4 meter vehicles is not so clear. In terms of taxations we still have some doubts. This is the uniqueness of Indian market and so being a global car maker we are looking at it and are very careful to what we plan as well. No sub-4 meter cars for Nissan. we might have one but will not be our focus" Guillaume Sicard

Nissan Terrano gets no mechanical changes and continues to come in 1.6L petrol engine and two 1.5 diesel engine (85 PS & 110 PS) options, overall there are 4 variants on offer. The AMT gearbox will continue to come only on the top end XV D PRE 110 PS variant.

Recently, the company has exported a total of 700,000 “Made in India” Nissan and Datsun cars in 7 years since the company began exports from India. The cars, manufactured at the Renault-Nissan Alliance plant in Chennai, have been exported to 106 countries.

As per the suit filed, Royal Enfield has infringed Flash electronics’ patent on “Regulator Rectifier Device and Method for Regulating an Output Voltage of the Same” duly issued by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) to Flash Electronics on February 20, 2018 after Flash’s R&D department made a breakthrough invention of the component in 2014.